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claqueur

American  
[kla-kur] / klæˈkɜr /
Also claquer

noun

  1. a member of a claque.


Etymology

Origin of claqueur

1830–40; < French, equivalent to claque claque + -eur -eur

Example Sentences

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In any case, the trunkmaker was a sort of foreshadowing of the claqueur.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

Brossard having introduced me to the sous-chef of the Claque at the Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a claqueur.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding Granet most enthusiastically.

From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri

The chatouilleur, or tickler, a variety of the genus claqueur, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

But the license of Monsieur Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial charlatan,—le claqueur de la Grand Armée, as he has been called.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

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